作者:Naoki Umezawa、Nobuyoshi Matsumoto、Shinsuke Iwama、Nobuki Kato、Tsunehiko Higuchi
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2010.07.018
日期:2010.9
A facile synthetic method for peptide-porphyrin conjugates containing four peptide units on one porphyrin was developed using chemoselective reactions. The key building blocks, 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(3-azidophenyl) porphyrin 1 and 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(5-azido-3-pyridyl) porphyrin 2, were efficiently synthesized and used as substrates for two well-known chemoselective reactions, traceless Staudinger ligation and copper-catalyzed azide alkyne cycloaddition (so-called click chemistry). Both reactions gave the desired compounds, and click chemistry was superior for our purpose. To confirm the value of the established methodology, nine peptide-porphyrin conjugates were synthesized, and their catalase-and peroxidase-like activity in water was evaluated. Our synthetic strategy is expected to be valuable for the preparation of artificial heme protein models. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.